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A federal class-action lawsuit filed in Oakland Friday alleges that Contra Costa County juvenile justice staff are violating federal and state
anti-discrimination laws by placing mentally disabled youth in solitary confinement for months at a time and denying them education and treatment.

Posted by Concerned Citizen
a resident of Danville
on Aug 11, 2013 at 7:35 am

This is absolutely disgusting! I'm outraged by the brutality of our school administrators! Why are our children being treated like prisoners?! I have always found positive reinforcement leads to positive change and the objective of the program was just that - rehabilitation and not punishment. What a wide gap from our idealism to reality! These are the same types of people dictating the policies in our standard school systems too. My son's starting school this year... I'm watching you.

Where is the oversight committee known as the Contra Costa Mental Health Commission in all of this? They have either been shirking their duties or as I believe have been kept in the dark about this. I fear the atrocities that take place behind these walls would cause most of us to cringe.

Please, Julia, for the rest of us - those who write what we mean in our lines, instead of putting the meaning "between" them - let us all in on what Ms. Richardson was expressing which "hits the nail on the head."

C'mon, you're not shy - say it out loud. Tell us what the two of your really mean.